Re: [Guidolib-devel] Implementation of tempo indications

[Dominique F. <fo...@gr...>]

Le lundi, 1 d=E9c 2003, =E0 12:26 Europe/Paris, J=FCrgen Kilian a =E9crit =
:

> Hi
>
> Stephane Letz wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually dotted note are handled but not with the "." syntax. You can=20=

>> use
>> 3/8 to represent a dotted quarter note for example.
>>
> ok, I see.
>
>> We started with the Basic guido specification that says for tempo tag=20=

>> :
>>
>> \tempo<s,s2> where s2 of the form "x/y=3Dn", thus i just forgot the =
"."
>> syntax. Do you think it it absolutely necessay to support the "."=20
>> syntax?
>>
> Because it's already possible to specify dotted notes by their=20
> duration, it would be only some kind of "nice" feature. But it's not=20=

> absolutely necessarily needed.
>
> I guess there are more important things at the moment. We should add a=20=

> remark into the GUIDO spec "dotted notes can be represented by a=20
> duration without dots....".

Not really: there isn't any ambiguity in case of tempo marking, but on=20=

the score it's different to write c/4. and c*3/8: the former is to be=20
written with a dot while the latter may be written using a tie and=20
therefore the 2 notation forms are not equivalent.

Dominique